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Subject:RE: What's a Pilot Bearing? ('88)
From:Maher, Steve (SD-MS)
Date:Tue, 02 Apr 1996 09:47:00 -0800 (PST)

Oops! Sorry... my knowledge of VWs is mostly on the upright-fan engine
cars-- all type-1s, type-2s '71 and older. My apologies for the wrong
info!

So... whare IS the pilot bearing on an '88?

And, where is it on a normal '80 Vanagon? Mine may be different from
"normal", of course, with the Chevy engine and mostly-VW flywheel).

>Steve -- no gland nut in an '88. And none in yours either. They were only
>in the Air Cooleds.
>
>On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Maher, Steve (SD-MS) wrote:
>> It's those little needle bearings inside the gland nut, which is the big
>> nut that holds the flywheel onto the crankshaft. The input shaft to the

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